religion

"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."

"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."

"Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire."

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

"Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock."

"If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise."

"Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people."

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"

"Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions."

"Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that."

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

"Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith."

"Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?"

"When asked why I don't believe in God I reply, quite simply, "vaginas"."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."